An0maly

Well, our school is really bad teacher wise, as they have about a 10% pass rate. The only classes with a good pass rate are APUSH with around a 70-80% pass rate, and spanish has a 100% pass rate [all the people who take it speak spanish fluently, so yeah].

I took AP Bio freshman year and I got a 4 on it. I took AP Euro and Calc AB this year, and I expect to do well on them. I know about half my euro class passed, but I'm pretty sure that I'm the only one who passed calc out of around 22 people. In my ap bio class, it was me and this girl out of 20 kids who passed. I was wondering if it's possible to report these percentages in the score report, and if I did, if it would help or no?

whitesox24

Some high schools may show the pass rates on AP tests on the school report that they send to colleges. I would ask your counselor to find out for sure.

An0maly

She said that I have the option to, but I was wondering whether or not I should actually choose to show the percentages. Would in benefit me, or is it irrelevent.

Liist

In many cases it's irrelevant. They care about you, not the 90 other people who failed.

bartleby

It could hurt your application by suggesting grade inflation/poor academic preparation across the board in your high school.

shravas

Uh, I think it would help as long as your scores are good, because it shows that you were able to do well on a test whose preparation is supposed to come mainly from the class, when the class wasn't that good.

Also, how much does "poor academic preparation" hurt you if you have no choice in which school you go to, and are taking the most challenging curriculum at your school?

bartleby

Yeah, I should have actually read the entire OP and seen that the OPer got a 4. I thought, from the first paragraph, that he was trying to blame his low score on an AP on poor teaching. Mea culpa.